418 



IOWA. 



Loan AttoelatioBs. In a d 



the Suj.n ' toU-r il i> liflil that in 



indium up the affairs of a building ami loan asso- 

 ciation a pro ntta payment must IHJ made to all 

 stockholder* regard)!-**' of notices of withdrawals. 

 ll 



ranee report issued by the 



Auditor in July covers the yesx 1898. It sl.o> that 

 the preiniuins 'collected by all kinds of insurance 

 tunes Amounted to *7.u>8,680.28. The losses 

 luring the same peri -I Amounted to $-j 

 179.05. The percent, of premiums returned to in- 

 Mired, therefore, in payment of losses WAS 87-8, leav- 

 ss profit to the companies of >: 

 has been net incrcuM* of nine fire insur- 

 oompAnies and i-i-ht tire insurance Associations 



previous 



he eompa Mi-iii* in 1896 116 were 



flrt\ : :ieiit assessment, and 1 '. 



mutual tin*, hail, tornado, etc. 



.trred this year 

 from carrying u business in Minnesota. 



In July the Minnesota commissioner withdrew 

 the bar to the Iowa com|winies, and the t rouble was 

 at ait 



In referenee to the law regard ii n of 



mi ineonies of foreign insurance -oni| 

 (see under Legislative Session." this art id.-> Sccre- 

 tary-of-State Sherman wrote to the (iovernor: " It 

 i t.. tin- department by the 



minister of Switxerland at this capital that'lowa 

 has laid a tax upon the premium income of Kun>- 

 pean insurance companies greater than the tax im- 

 posed upon the premium inc. of American. As 



this operates to the disadvantage of Swiss insurance 

 niies doing business in b -\\ a. t he minister sub- 

 mits that it is a violation of the treaty rights of 

 Swiss citizens as set forth in Article XI of the treaty 

 concluded Nov. 25, 1850, between the I'nited States 

 Hand. I have the honor to ijuote the 

 itcTtini nt provision of said Art iele XI. ' No higher 

 impost, under whatever name, shall IK- exacted from 

 i/.ensof one of the two countries residing or 

 established in the other, than shall be levied upon 

 'i/cnsof the country in which they reside nor 

 any contribution whatever to which the latter shall 

 not be ha 



Prod nets and Industries. The Chief of the 

 State Weather anl < rop service gave in July a re- 

 port on farm statistics. The acreage was: Winter 

 wheat, 194.466: spring wheat, 1,076,837; corn, 8,610,- 

 ..ats, 4,405,782; barley. 551,867; rye, 226,198; 

 tame hay, 2,159,384; wild hay. 1.1.-.6.638; flax.Jl 1 '- 

 882 ; potatoes, 163,248. The number of cattle was 

 3.008,024; of horses, 1,220.068; of sheep, 464.7. >1 : 

 of hogs, 5,596,691. The loss of hogs by cholera in 

 L0M raMttOQft 



The value of the dairv products of the State in 

 1896 was $41.573.000. 



The biennial report of the mine inspectors shows 

 the following totals of the coal-mining business in 



1896 and 1897: Total expense of tracking, props, 

 etc,, at mine*. $681.998; average selling pri< 

 tonat mines, $1.30; total value of pr*l in t at mines, 

 $9.534,677: total amount paid miners, s 



total amount paid all other employees. $2.161 

 average price |-r ton paid for mining, 77 < 

 Average number of miners employed, H.483 ; average 

 number of all other employees,' 2,987; number of 

 tons of coal produced, 7.325,224; average number 

 of mines in operation, 858. 

 The number of business failures in Iowa during 



1897 was 808, with asset* of $1.774.588 and liabili- 

 ties of $2.688,441. In 1896 the Iowa failures were 

 891, with assets of $4,470,547 and liabilities of 



Hie Mulct Law. This law. which was designed 

 to reduce liquor selling to a minimum in counties 



where the prohibition law had failed to work satis- 



em- to IK? successful, ace. >r<l in-: to the 



answers given by county auditor* to questions - nt 



:rom the office of tl " .Mar-clipper." 



[oestioDS were, in brief : i. I- the mulct lu\\ in 



force in > our county f 'J. What linaiicial benefit^? 

 8. 1st -fill ? The returns made 



to the " Star-Clipper" show that the mulct penalty 

 law is in for. e m in,, u t ..f the '.MI count ies. Th 

 lection by counties aggregated last year #*>. 1 1 1> 1. 

 to which must I- .nnts collected by cities 



making the total probably $1.500,000 a . . f 

 the Jo oMoiinee the mulct law an un- 



(juali 1 ' Mily one audit un- 



qualifiedly " No " to the third question, ninl it 

 the auditor of \ County, where there has 



.lerable friction on this question. Tlie 

 Supreme Court decided in rVbruary that tl,. 

 does not apply to cities organised under sp 

 chart 



sciiiicciitcnnial < clcbration. The fiftieth an- 

 niversary of the settlement of I'ella was a: 

 priately 'celebrate. 1 Sept. 1. The first settlers wen 

 from Holland, and \\ere auion^ the fnxt 

 to come into the State. It is estimated that the 

 iMitch and their de-cendaiit- in Io\va occii: 

 area about one fifteenth as large as Holland. 



India Uelief. The final report of the Indi, 

 lief Commission sho\\s that a total of ;: 

 taining 2. 050.:} 10 pounds of ^rain was ^iven by the 

 peopli-..f |o\\:i for the relief of the starving and 

 plague-stricken iidiabitants of India. Theexp' 

 of the commission have been almost not hiiiL r . and 

 what has been spent was for postage, - 

 printing, anil for drying corn. Not one cent was 

 used I'm- clerical or other personal work. 



l.ei:is|at he Session.- An extraonlin, 

 of the Legislature was called to meet .Ian. I'.i. in 

 Accordance with a concurrent resolution pas- 

 the regular session in ISJMJ. The subjects f. : 

 sideration mentioned in the call were the report on 

 the revision and codifical ion of the laws and pro- 

 vision for repairing the damage to many of the 

 buildings of State institutions. The work of the 

 session virtually closed May 11, when a recess was 

 taken to July 1. and the final adjournment took 

 place .Inly 2. " This was done in order to po-' 

 the time when the new code was to p. into . 

 a constitutional provision making it ninet\ 

 after the adjournment. The cost of the - 

 session, including the printing, was $170,497.58. 

 Lieut. -(Jov. I'arrott presided . -. nate. and 



II. W. livers was Speaker of the II 



Many salaries and allowances for expenses of 

 State o'fficers were reduced, and provision was made 

 for increase of revenue. The total net. p'i" ' 

 State treasury was declared by the Speaker to be 

 about $165,000 a year. 



The mulct law was passed with an aim in! 

 allowing the manufacture of liquor in the 8 

 There was mii"h opposition to this bill, and many 

 net it ions against it were sent to the Legislature. 

 The manufacture of liquor may not be carri- 

 in any city of less than .'..iUKi unless 50 per cent, of 

 the voters at the preceding election have siu r n-d a 

 statement of consent, and it is permitted only in 

 towns that have the mulct saloon. The mulct law- 

 is made applicable to cities of over 'J.-VKi and under 

 5,000 when a petition is signed by 80 per CM 

 voters. 



The sum of $112,900 was appropriated for re- 

 building the Institution for I-'eeble-Mindcd Chil- 

 dren, at Glenwood. 



Among other chanL r '^ in the laws the more im- 

 101 are summed up by the "State Register" as 

 below : 



Revenue laws: All property is to be listed at its 



